Chapter 164: Can't Go
The temperature is getting cooler, and the wind is blowing the leaves on the trees. The sky was overcast, the clouds were black and looked thick, and the sun was obscured and the sunlight could not penetrate it.
It's a mountain, not a tall mountain, or one of the endless mountains, and the way up is a winding path of stone steps. This is different from the few subdivisions that Olive has seen, and the cemetery is different. The mountain was not bulldozed and filled with tombstones, but a tombstone was erected under each of the big trees on the mountain.
It seems that he wants the ashes or the soul to nourish it, or he wants the tree to guard the ghosts of the warriors so that they can rest in peace.
Pretty innovative, isn't it? But Olive still didn't like it, but she came anyway. She felt like she was in a constant cycle.
Fighting, sweeping, fighting, sweeping, sweeping, fighting...... Maybe one day she won't be able to use it, because she's already one of "them".
The clean stone path looks like it is often cleaned, lined with neat trees and neatly lined with pure white tombstones. Olive noticed that some of the tombstones had not yet been engraved with their names, and she remembered that it was because the soldiers who were still alive wanted to find a good position in advance, so that they would have less worry when they went to war.
Sad, isn't it? If you are still alive, you will dig a grave for yourself, and it is not interesting for a person to live to this point! What's even more ridiculous is that when she just got off the train a few days ago, there was a big man with a bloody face taking the lead, and there were several young men kneeling on the platform crying and shouting on the platform that they wanted to be soldiers.
Do they really want to die? This was Olive Live's first thought, what normal person would be so desperate to join the army in wartime? At that time, there was a large group of soldiers standing in front of her, they were all the officers of the 22nd Division, and they all stood straight and saluted her, and this treatment made Olive vanity burst in an instant.
(Look~!) Even if my brother's body has changed, the personality charm from the soul is still very powerful~! )
And then what should she do with these fools behind her? Don't want to? Everyone knelt down, and it was too talented to kneel in front of so many people in the station, and it didn't seem good for her to refuse directly.
Later, Olive had to wave her hand and let people take them away, hehe! You'll regret it, that's what she envisioned the fate of these idiots.
Then she regretted it a little, she remembered the three splashes who were thrown out of the window with their heads cut off, and she should have just knocked them out and then thrown them into the army~!
Alas~! Mistakes, mistakes!
In the past few days since returning to the base, there has been nothing to do anyway, which makes Olive suddenly think of "that person". Go see him? I've heard it's very close. Olive was silent in her office for a while and decided to take a look anyway, and although there was nothing to see, it was ...... Seems like it should go, doesn't it? If she hangs up and is buried in the dirt, maybe she will want someone to come and see her~!
"Sha~Sha~Sha~"
Today's temperature is a little cold, and Olive tightens her military uniform, but it still feels cold. Who Tamade stipulates that women's military uniforms only have barrel skirts!? You're going to die if you give a pair of pants to labor!? The legs of labor and management are frozen~! I'm 鈤~!!
Walking on the path up the mountain, there were many small grasses and flowers on the side of the road, and the trees on both sides exuded a faint aroma of plants, and she could not name these plants.
It doesn't seem like a good thing to be buried here! Then she quickly shattered this thought, bah, bah, bah~! Who wants to die, long live labor and management~!
Reaching the mountainside, Olive saw a man who was "unusually ugly", with no hair or eyebrows, and scars on his head, face, and hands peeking out of the cuffs of his coat. It seems to be a burn mark, except for a pair of eyes that are normal, it looks like a monster, or like an alien.
A military uniform was neatly worn on his body, and the sergeant's badge on his shoulders seemed to be polished by him. Who is it? Olive didn't know it, but a figure of a man coincided with him.
At that time, the figure always stood as if he was not standing, hunched back, slumped shoulders, and hands in trouser pockets like a hooligan, but now this figure is straight, like a sharp sword.
"Sand, sand, sand~"
Olive approached him, looking sideways at the tombstone in front of him.
“…… Did you come to see him? ”
She asked nonsense, but she really didn't know what to say.
"Female ...... Sir~! ”
"Huh~!"
The sergeant seemed to have just recovered from his stupor, and he immediately gave Olive a standard military salute.
"Come on...... Did you see him? ”
Olive didn't return the salute, just looked sideways at the name on the tombstone.
“……”
The sergeant also looked sideways at the tombstone, but he did not answer.
"Let's go and fix it!"
The sergeant looked back at her, then lowered his head again, like a child making a mistake.
“…… I want to keep them...... So that you can remember ......"
“…… Those who live must live, and they will get better in the future. ”
Will it get better? Olive felt like she didn't believe it.
“……”
"Don't live in hatred......"
Olive was racking her brains to organize language, and she tried to persuade him.
"That's ...... It's not good for you......"
“……”
“…… I used to hate him a lot......"
The man looked up into her eyes, his eyes shining with memories.
“…… I hate it even more now~"
Olive seemed to see a shadow of "him" in him, and she tapped her finger on his chest before lowering it.
"You have two lives in you."
The man moved his lips and didn't speak again.
"Huh~!"
The man saluted Olivi, and he walked around her and left.
"Here at once! Get out of here...... After all...... It's important to be alive......"
Olive turned to look at the soldier who had already walked a few meters away.
"What if...... If you die too...... It doesn't make sense......"
“……”
The soldier stopped, he lowered his head as if he was thinking about something, or struggling somehow, and then he looked up at the front.
“…… Will I still be able to leave? ”
"I used to regret coming here every day and every night......"
“…… But can I still leave? ”
The man seemed to be talking to himself.
“…… Can't go...... I...... Can't walk......"
The man's body trembled, and he walked away again with his head down, and he didn't look back......
"Wow~Wow~Wow~"
The wind rattled the leaves, and Olive looked at the figure that disappeared from her eyes, looking sideways at the tombstone beside her, and felt an indescribable discomfort in her heart.
After a while she looked up again and looked at the hillside not far above, where there was still a man, a soldier. He was Adoni, he was standing in front of a tombstone in a daze, he didn't say anything, he just stood there motionless, he seemed to have become a tree, the tree of that tombstone......
……